Twitter was out in force delivering its verdict on the first presidential debate Monday, but some of the most devastating burns came from an unlikely source: the dictionary.
Merriam-Webster's Twitter account, which usually tweets words of the day, decided to deliver its verdict on some of the lingo deployed by the two candidates during the 90-minute debate.
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OK, it was mostly Trump's words. OK, it was all Trump. This was how his rambling word salad went down with the nation's lexicographers.
They got a bit upset when he dropped the "braggadocious" bomb
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And when he argued with moderator Lester Holt about "stop and frisk"
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They did defend him when everyone thought he said "bigly"
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They weren't too keen on the use of "deproximately"
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Merriam-Webster did respond to one of Clinton's phrases, however, as the debate wrapped up
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Bonus video:
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